Is marijuana more dangerous than alcohol?

11:40 PM,
Jan. 20, 2014

Written by

Elizabeth Weise | USA Today

Physicians and drug policy groups are sharply at odds over President Barack Obama's statement to a magazine that marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol "in terms of its impact on the individual consumer."

Obama's interview with The New Yorker will appear Monday. In the interview, he said that while he considers marijuana "a bad habit and a vice," a waste of time and not very healthy, he doesn't think it's more dangerous than alcohol.

The issue is in the news as two states, Colorado and Washington, begin experiments with the legal sale of recreational marijuana this year. Both passed laws ...